Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people